[Libreoffice-qa] Moztrap, some questions

[Petr Mladek]

Sophie Gautier píše v St 15. 08. 2012 v 14:29 +0200:
> Hi Bjoern,
> On 15/08/2012 13:00, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote:
> > I fear manually translated testcases are doomed to fail as they will always be
> > outdated/incomplete during the timeframe that matters. Using automatic
> > translation (and tweaking the original so it comes out understandable) might
> > work though. Automatic translation is by now mostly only a problem, if you dont
> > control the source.
> 
> Imho, that won't work for two reasons:
> - behavior is not the same in every language and testing may differ/be 
> adapted depending on the local

We had this discussion on Litmus times. We need to split the test cases
into language independent and language specific groups. I think that
most functionality is language independent and thus simple translation
of the test case should be enough. The few language-specific test cases
might need special handling.

I think that we have to extend Moztrap to translate test cases and UI
sooner or later. We need to find a temporary solution that will allow
testers to work with it already now and allow to migrate the test cases
to the translated framework later easily.

> - UI strings are not the same due to localization, and we are also QAing 
> our l10n when we do those tests in our language

I also think that we will get better results with our own localization.
Most test cases should stay the same between few releases. I think that
we could survive one or two years with inline translations. I hope that
we could get real localization support within that timeframe.

We are going to pay some external developers to improve bugzilla this
year. I would imagine that we could get some money to improve Moztrap
next year if we were not able to do it using our resources.


Best Regards,
Petr